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EXHIBIT J. Total Amount of Loans which have been provisionally approved but have not been finally granted. £447,696. Each case is marked thus * in return hereto annexed, with remarks made against each. Amounts, Dates, etc., provisionally approved but not finally granted at 3| per Cent. Nil.

Loans declined, abandoned, rejected at Poll, or lapsed.

Local Body. Amount. I Purpose. Remarks. Ashley County Council* Akaroa Borough Council Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Buller County Council £ 2.530 5,000 50,000 Bridge over Ashley River To instal electric light To repay a loan and erect buildings.. Abandoned. Declined. No power to levy rate. Declined. 3 3 Gisborne Borough Council Gonville Town Board Gonville and Castlecliff Tramway Board Hawke's Bay County Council*.. 3.000 6,000 175,000 4.000 30.000 To erect new County Chambers To reduce the bank oveidraft For sewerage and drainage For swimming-baths, &c. Tramway-construction 33 33 33 * * Heathcote County Council Hobson County Council Clifton County Council* Cook County Council* 3,000 4.482 1,900 2,000 1,000 62.580 Roads-formation, &c. To repay a loan For roadmaking and protective works To procure a metal-crushing plant . . To metal portion of Uruti Road To metal and widen about one hundred miles of roads and construction of three cart-bridges To rebuild bridges in Arai Riding .. To metal a mile of Riverside Road . . Road from Tolaga Bay to Kaiaua Road Road from Tuawhata Block to Section 65, Paremata, &c. To erect a cart-bridge over the Maraetaha River To wipe out the bank overdraft To repay a loan of a similar amount for electric lighting Tramways extensions Municipal coal-gas works Permanent improvements to streets and roads, &c. To provide drainage Extending plant at electric-light station Lapsed. Declined. Limit reached. Declined. Abandoned. Rejected at poll. * 2,800 700 500 33 33 ' ' Limit reached. 33 ' * 5,100 33 3 3 ' * 1,500 33 Coromandel County Council Campbelltown Borough Council 2,869 4,000 Declined. Christchurch Tramway Board .. Dargaville Borough Council Eden Terrace Road Board* 61,400 8,500 15,000 33 33 Rejected at poll. Epsom Road Board Eketahuna Borough Council .. 55,000 1,400 Limit reached. Declined. J) * ' 1,500 To grade, form, and metal Alfredton Road 33 Featherston County Council .. 250 To erect a small bridge, and roadmetalling To construct concrete channels, &c. Electric-light purposes To erect a town hall To instal a system of electric lighting Water-supply and drainage Purchase Foxton gasworks To complete Coronation Swimingbaths Limit reached. a ' ' Feilding Borough Council a ' ' ss ' " 200 8,000 8,000 8,000 20,000 11.000 200 33 Declined. 33 33 Rejected at poll. Declined. Foxton Borough Council* a ' * Featherston Town Board 33 Frankton Town Board 400 7,500 To extend street-lighting Establishing works for supply of electricity Building bridges To construct water-races Bridges, roads, &c, in Makerua Estate Declined. Horowhenua County Council .. 750 150 2,800 Limit reached. iS ' • 33 >s • • 33